tissue
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tissue /ˈtɪʃuː, ˈtɪsjuː/
▶noun
- 1 any of the distinct types of material of which animals or plants are made, consisting of specialized cells and their products.
- 2 tissue paper.
■ a piece of absorbent paper, used especially as a disposable handkerchief.
- 3 fabric of a delicate gauzy texture.
- 4 a web-like structure or network: a tissue of lies.
– derivatives
tissuey adjective.
tissuey adjective.
– origin ME: from OFr. tissu ‘woven’, past part. of tistre, from L. texere ‘to weave’.
'tissue' also found in these Oxford entries:
ablation
- abscess
- acquired character
- adenocarcinoma
- adenoids
- adenoma
- adenovirus
- adipocere
- adipocyte
- adipose
- aerenchyma
- alga
- allograft
- amyotrophy
- anoxia
- aplasia
- aponeurosis
- ascorbic acid
- atraumatic
- atrophy
- autograft
- autotransplantation
- basement membrane
- biocompatible
- biomaterial
- biopsy
- -blast
- bone
- brachytherapy
- brain
- brown fat
- callus
- cambium
- cancellous
- canker
- carbon cycle
- carcinoma
- cartilage
- caseation
- caustic
- cellulitis
- chondroitin
- cirrhosis
- coaptation
- collagen
- collenchyma
- commissure
- connective tissue
- conservative
- contracture
